The most widespread pink-legged gull in North America, the herring is common in the east and mainly a winter visitor in the west. Hybrids can be locally common (mainly in the wescat). Polytypic.

Sadly, as garden and nature writer Kate Bradbury recalls, herring gull chicks are clumsy, many fall from roofs and need rescuing. Kate does her bit. Converting her shed into a rescue home for ...

There, in the crashing shallows below the Main Street Dam, the gull lowered its yellow beak. It cocked its head ... the water at the entrance to the herring fish ladder. “It’s waiting.

Many years, ring-billed gulls are the most common wintering gull in Kansas ... Their namesake black ring at the end of their beak is a constant no matter the age. In the winter, these birds ...

Soon the gull gave up, bent its sharp, hooked beak, sawed off the trapped leg and flew away. Other Coast Guardsmen last week found many a thin pinkish gull leg stuck upright in the ice.

Listen to Sean harmonize about the Herring Gull above... About The Herring Gull: Although in recent years they have begun to colonise urban areas, they're traditionally a bird of the sea.